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Senior Network Engineer with Security Clearance

GCyberscott afb (safb, MD🇺🇸United StatesPosted 20 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

You will excel as a Senior Network Engineer on a high-profile Air Force program, leveraging your expertise in network design and security to support a critical mission. This impactful role offers significant opportunities for professional growth within a reputable organization, where you will be instrumental in ensuring network availability and performance. If you possess a TOP SECRET clearance and a passion for advanced network engineering, this is an exceptional opportunity to contribute to national security and advance your career.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Remote
Schedule
Employee
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

GCyber is hiring a Senior Network Engineer to serve as the program's network design authority for a high-profile Air Force network program supporting a critical mission. The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for managing and maintaining network availability, security, and performance across multiple sites and classifications. This position is full time onsite at Scott AFB, IL. Given the classified nature of the work and the mission essential designation of this position, there is no opportunity for hybrid or remote work. This position is contingent upon contract award. As the Senior Network Engineer, you will:

  • Provide network analysis and design services and evaluate and recommend new technologies to meet requirements and improve network performance.
  • Test and document all hardware, software, and configuration changes in the lab before they are made at an operational site, and produce the installation and configuration guides the Government requires before each change.
  • Serve as the Tier 3+ escalation point for network issues at three operational gateway sites and the platforms that connect to them.
  • Engineer and review configurations for routers, switches, firewalls, VLANs, VPNs, CIDR and VLSM schemes, DNS, encryption devices, network management services, and satellite transmissions.
  • Configure fault tolerance and disaster recovery for servers and network devices.
  • Write scripts to configure, monitor, and troubleshoot the network.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience:

  • Active DoD TOP SECRET clearance and enrollment in Continuous Vetting
  • Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
  • DoD 8140/8570 IAT Level II certification.
  • BA/BS and 8+ years of network engineering experience, including a minimum of 5 years of directly relevant experience.
  • Expertise in routing, switching, firewall, VPN, VLAN, IPv4/IPv6, and encryption device experience in a production environment.
  • Experience applying DISA STIGs and carrying out USCYBERCOM and DISA tasking orders.
  • Hands on experience with air-to-ground gateways, airborne communications, SATCOM transport, or TCP acceleration.

Preferred Skills & Experience

  • CCIE or Cisco Certified DevNet Associate.
  • Network automation experience: Python against network APIs, GitLab CI, and EVE-NG or a similar lab emulation tool.
  • Experience supporting aircraft developmental or operational test and evaluation.
  • Experience with SolarWinds and Splunk.

Skills

Encryption
Splunk
DNS
GitLab CI
Python

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